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It’s no secret that mobile analytics firm Flurry gets a kick out of tracking apps and mobile device adoption trends, and today it released some new data on iOS and Android device adoption around the globe. The United States still leads in the number of active iOS and Android devices...

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comScore has released its ‘explicit’ U.S. search data for January of this year and while Google and Microsoft Bring’s search share continues to grow, Yahoo’s share dropped both year over year and month over month. This comes after Bing overtook Yahoo in terms of search queries for the first time...

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Smartphones and tablets maker HTC this morning said it foresees a huge drop in revenue (PDF) in the first quarter, citing “short-term difficulties” as it gears up to – reportedly – launch four new phone models at the Mobile World Congress later this month. The Taiwanese company sees revenue dropping...

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All About Windows Phone, a news and review site that is – you guessed it – all about Windows Phone claims the Marketplace has surpassed 100,000 applications for the platform, according to data from its own tracking system. Every Windows Phone app has a unique ‘App ID’ number, the...

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In 1927, Werner von Heisenberg documented what he referred to as an “Uncertainty Principle” governing quantum mechanics. The Uncertainty Principle holds that an observation cannot precisely reveal both the position of a particle at a point in time and its momentum. The more the... Please visit Search Engine Land for...

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If you haven’t yet heard about the latest iPhone release, then you, my friend, can officially change your name to Patrick the Starfish because you’ve been living under a rock. Since Apple established the annual release cycle of its iconic smartphone, it seems like rumors about the next iPhone...

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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia this morning announced that it has lowered its first-quarter 2012 outlook for the key Devices & Services unit. Press release is below, we’re digging through it and updating this post. Difficult financial performance reflects company in transition Positive early momentum in Lumia smartphone strategy Nokia...

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Whether you subscribe to the idea of social influence or not, services that mark — or try to mark — it are continuing to pick up momentum, and the latest example of that is PeerIndex, the UK-based social influence marketing platform, picking up a $3 million round of funding from...

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During a wide-ranging Bloomberg interview with Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, the executive focused for a bit on the current status of Android, while also making a few interesting comments about its future. "This is a huge platform change; this is of the scale of 20 years ago -- Microsoft...

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Friends Reunited — which once laid claim to being the UK’s first social network before falling far behind the pull of Facebook — is relaunching this week as a “digital scrapbook” where users can collect their own pictures along with copyrighted photos, through a series of deals with image libraries....

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Even now, it’s still shocking how the remarkably low distribution costs of the web can change a founder’s fate overnight. Many startups are duds, and most grow at a clip that’s just not fast enough to justify an interesting valuation. But once in awhile, a company comes along and just...

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The unprecedented growth rate Google’s Android operating system has enjoyed can’t last forever, and a new report suggests 2012 is the year Android’s share of the global smartphone market will peak. Market research firm IDC on Wednesday released the findings of its latest Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker report, and...

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Of the 110 million current smartphone owners in the United States, users visited Instagram from their smartphones on a daily basis more frequently than they visited Twitter during the month of August, AllThingsDigital has learned, marking the first time that the massively popular photo sharing service has passed Twitter in...

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Maybe cognitive friction in our reading experiences -- be it in typeface choice or annotation mechanism -- is a good thing. One of the really tough questions to answer in relation to any technology is: When do you make something easy and when do you make it hard? This problem...

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Android has crossed 850,000 device activations per day, according to a tweet from Google boss Andy Rubin. This is up from the 700,000 daily activations reported in December, and a Google blog post indicates that there have been over 300 million activations to date (Apple most recently indicated that it's...

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Considering that Google’s Director of Research Peter Norvig and Google X founder Sebastian Thrun co-taught one of the massive online Stanford classes that helped give momentum to the recent surge in online learning, it’s probably not surprising that the search giant itself is now staking out a spot in education’s latest...

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The Android platform is now seeing more than 850,000 device activations per day, up from the 700,000 figured shared back in January, according to Andy Rubin, who oversees the OS at Google. The figures suggest that Android may be gaining some momentum again, after Apple saw a blowout $46.3...

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Samsung could be just weeks away from unveiling its next flagship Android smartphone — the Galaxy S III — on May 3 after the company began sending invites with the tagline “come and meet the next Galaxy” for an event that will be held in London at the start of...

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Innovative card printing firm Moo.com has extended its Facebook-based card making initiative to businesses, with a new offer that allows companies to design cards using their Facebook Pages for free. Under the offer, businesses, such as restaurants, can create cards using details from their Facebook Page — including images and other details...

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Samsung's Galaxy S III hit the 10 million mark at the end of July, and in the time since then the company has doubled that figure — Samsung says it's reached 20 million Galaxy S III sales, 100 days after the handset launched in May. Samsung has also broken...

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Nokia and Motorola had their day in the device spotlight yesterday, and today it Amazon’s turn, with Apple’s next week. So in the middle of all of this, just to make sure we don’t forget about it, Samsung has released some numbers on sales of its newest smartphone, the Galaxy...

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There is a nagging concern for potential Facebook shareholders: the guy running the company doesn't care that much about making money. Mark Zuckerberg has done an incredible job building Facebook into a product that 900 million people use every month and 500 million people use every day. Because of that...

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Google, not unexpectedly is an opponent of any legislation that tries to change how the Internet works (as long it is to their advantage, of course) and as such, was very vocal about the dreaded SOPA/PIPA legislations that were being foisted upon the US Internet users. Thanks to our collective (and...

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Miguel Hernandez, the founder of a company specializing in explanatory videos for startups, said he spent about three hours a day for three weeks making an online video course explaining his craft. But, last year, that one video series earned him nearly six figures on the online course platform Udemy....

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There are two major trends that will dictate the future of the tech industry. By the end of this decade, more people will be using the Internet through a mobile device than through their desktop. The Internet is becoming Chinese. Already, there are more Internet users in China than there...

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Engine Yard, the popular platform as a service, said its revenue doubled year over year to $28 million in 2011 and the number of paying customers rose 50 percent to 2,000 in that time. The privately held company would not comment on profitability. There is definitely more interest in PaaS...

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That was fast: in the scant few hours since Microsoft unveiled its Metro-style take on email, one million people have signed up for an account with Outlook.com. The service (which will ultimately replace Hotmail) features a revamped user interface that borrows heavily Windows 8, direct integration with Facebook and...

arstechnica.com

Momentum against Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement continued to build on Thursday as three different committees of the European Parliament voted not to recommend adoption of the treaty. A final vote by the full European Parliament is scheduled for July. The EU-wide votes followed on the heels of a Wednesday vote in...